Homepage: http://www.intertwingly.net/
Professional
Sam was hired by IBM right out of college (Christopher Newport College where he earned a B.A. in Mathematics), and has worked there ever since. Crazy, huh? His current position at Big Blue is Senior Technical Staff Member in the Emerging Technologies Group. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation and chairman of the Jakarta project. He's also a developer on the Apache SOAP project, the Feed Validator, and the Mombo publishing system which powers his weblog.
Personal
Sam owns an Acura MDX, though he probably doesn't need to use it very much as he telecommutes. He owns a cat (insomuch as anyone can be said to "own" a cat) and he has at times cared for a possum.